The UCF Student Government Elections Commission held the first debate for Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates, focusing on campus involvement issues like the Greek community, registered student organizations, and campus life.
Candidates spoke on key topics involving UCF decision to ban Greek Life activities at the school to focus on hazing and alcohol related issues. Andy Green and Zac Lee opposed the ban, saying that it wasn’t fair to punish the entire community for the actions of a few.
“I think that the ban was wrong and I think that we need is to stand up for the Greek community and say, you know what they are only social Greeks, only 1/20 of the UCF community but the UCF students just like everyone else,” Andy Green said.
Melissa Westbrook and Jacob Kahn, however, had a differing viewpoint that initially seemed to have their opinions in favor of the Greek Ban.
“Chico State has actually finished their Greek Life because they’ve had several deaths on their campus. We don’t want to see that happen–we haven’t had that happen here but, lets do prior proper planning and that’s exactly what the administration is trying to do here,” Melissa Westbrook said.
Watch raw video of many of the key topics from the debate.
KnightNews.com will be interview Melissa and Jacob at their platform release party tonight at The Moat Sports Grille.
Be sure to check back with KnightNews.com for full coverage of this year’s SGA elections.
